I’ve actually got 2 questions, one about l.w and one about lemmy in general.

  1. I signed up yesterday and got an email to confirm my address but it’s not working. I’ve used the user I created, my email, and the user that was in my email and it’s not working. is it me or is it the server here at issue?

  2. I’ve also got a mastodon account. how do I create a post on any sub straight from there and not through a lemmy instance?

  • spaduf@slrpnk.net
    7·
    10 months ago

    Consider putting the mention at the end as the first line of your post will become the post title. So

    Lorem ipsum
    Text text text
    @lorem@ipsum

    On Mastodon will give you a lemmy post that looks like

    Title:

    Lorem ipsum

    Body:

    Text text text
    @lorem@ipsum

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      5·
      10 months ago

      You need to add line breaks to your example here. Otherwise you are giving some very bad advice.

          • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
            5·
            10 months ago
            One single newline
Leads to no line break at all

Double space before the newline  
Should yield a line break

Double newline 

Leads to paragraph break

            One single newline Leads to no line break at all

            Double space before the newline
            Should yield a line break

            Double newline

            Leads to paragraph break

              • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
                3·
                10 months ago

                It’s in the holy text: the markdown standard.

                Ninja edit: the reason is because a single line break should have no formatting effect so that markdown files can be opened and show up better in terminal editors like vim or emacs. It’s good to be able to break a line when it gets too long in editors which don’t use page formatting to handle line wrapping (ie. like MS Word does). So you need something other than a single newline character to represent a rendered paragraph break.